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HELP! Plants under attack!

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Oh yes - definitely v. weevil have been at the sage too. Pity they don't eat the weeds....

    I gave up with sage a long time ago. Too much bother, and needed overwintering indoors. I don't even like it that much!

    You're right @Lyn - dig a hole, shove it in and off you go. Aye, if only  ;)

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The sage here is ten+ years old and still going strong and survived several weeks of thick snow etc when we had the Beast from the East, but we used nematodes to control the vineweevil some years ago, and the soil is gritty and freedraining. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Too wet and cold for it here @Dovefromabove, same with lots of things.
    My taste must have changed - I used to like it, but I really don't now. Same with lots of plants - whether it's the taste or the smell. Lavender is another - can't bear it. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Agree the damage to the Sage is Vine Weevils.

    No idea what you mean by some kind of rot @bede
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Sage does ok here, the plants were already here when we moved in 11 years ago, dad grew them long before that.  They have survived cold wet winters,  never been eaten by anything,  (so far). the rhubarb is next to it so everything eats those instead.
    I use loads of it for drying, we have sage and onion stuffing on chicken and pork and I dry enough for the year. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Nothing touched mine until the rosemary/ sage beetles found it. Holey like that but the beetles would be hard to miss!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nick Gurney 250Nick Gurney 250 Posts: 22
    What are rosemary/ sage beetles please?

    Also, all references to adult vine weevil attack says they eat from the edge inwards?
    Mine are holes in the body of the leaf to start with.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You can see the v. weevil markings on the edges of the sage leaves. That doesn't mean there isn't other pest damage too.
    Many plants can have several types of pests at the same time  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Agree, you appear to have several different pests there.  I'd start by attacking the vine weevil.  While the leaf damage is unsightly, it's the root-munching grubs which cause the most destruction and you don't want them getting into pots, containers and raised beds, which they seem to prefer over heavy soil.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Here you go.

    Not easy to miss and they're out in daylight
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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